Look, we had a 100 year flood event. All the storm water calculations are estimates and in some cases engineers made mistakes ...ooooo. The truth is until a major flooding event takes place, it's just an estimate. Now, each community in Porter County knows where the problems are and can try and figure out how to fix them.
I really get sick of people blaming the big bad "developers" everytime something floods though. Developers are regularly shaken down by towns and cities to fix off-site drainage, a tactic I find a bit corrupt. If a city or town has drainage issues, then the entire community should work to fix them but not dump the cost on the last guy to try and develop something new.
The Blame Game won't fix the problems, and raising fees hasn't accomplished a ton either in many places because the money isn't wisely invested. Follow the dollars, will storm water fees, sewer impact fees, park impact fees, and trash fees start to find their way into payroll accounts because cities and towns are feeling the pinch from HEA 1001? I hope not.
From the Times:
HEBRON | Town officials will be knocking on the Porter County Drainage Board's door, and they are bringing a lot of people with them.
The town wants to get on the agenda for the drainage board's next meeting to get help relieving flooding problems, especially on the town's east side. Residents and business owners from the east side were at Tuesday's council meeting to complain of stormwater backing up at the county ditch near the railroad embankment at the southeast corner of town.
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That's what pisses me off when reading the comments on the Times website. People kept trying to blame Mitch for the flooding.
There are plenty of other, relevant things to blame Mitch for. Once in a lifetime flooding is not one of them. So, I'll come to his defense in that regard. But that's it. ;)
People also need to keep in mind that Northwest Indiana is low lying land bordered by a gigantic lake not to mention all the rivers and streams that go through the area. Hell, NWI used to be mostly marshland! The water had to go somewhere and that was in our homes, the ground can only absorb so much water.
That's what's frustrating about so much political discourse in NWI (and this country), people are completely oblivious to facts and logic when they speak. You and I disagree on a lot of things, but at least we respect our differences and back up our arguments with logic.
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